The Best Summer Ever

After a nice long vacation from our blogging activities, we have decided to return and change our image for summer - one of our four favorite seasons.

So far this summer, we have made the most of our free time. We visited Moab with Brett and Whittney where we went on some awesome hikes, saw some really cool waterfalls, and ate some dang good food. Then we went to Logan Canyon with the Crockett parents. We hiked to the wind caves, had a few campfires, and ate dutch oven meals. Yesterday Justin and his band played at South Jordan's Country Fest and opened for Darryl Worley-who, in case you are wondering, is a great guy and he deserves your money. So go out and buy some of his compact discs - or download his music from itunes, or however the heck you purchase your music. It was a fun concert and we even got to see a fireworks show afterward. We have a ton of pictures and are going to post some for you to enjoy.

Also, here are a few things that we are going to do this summer. If you want to participate in any of the activities below you are welcome to do so...

1. Buy beach cruiser bicycles (with baskets on the front) and take them on picnics.
2. Buy peanuts at Wal-Mart and go to Salt Lake Bees games on Monday nights (admission: 3 bucks).
3. Hike Zion National Park.
4. Fix "Pearl Harbor" (our boat) and take it out on the lake every single weekend.
5. Go camping and/or hiking a bunch of times.

Finally, everyone is invited to attend the concerts this summer and hang out with Katie because she gets bored being the only girl that hangs out with the band. If you want to see when and where we will be playing you can check it out here: http://joshevertsen.com/events.php

Check the website often because it will get updated when new gigs are booked.

Volunteers Needed.

On Saturday, May 10 we are going to need a total of 21 volunteers. If you don’t volunteer we will pick you and you won’t have a choice (just like the prayers at church) so it’s in your best interest to volunteer. We will need a photographer, 2 bandagers, 10 water-bottle-hander-outers, 4 personal trainers, 2 massage therapists, and 2 people who can dump a big thing of Gatorade on us. Why all of the hoop-a-lah? Because we’re running the 5k Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure.” That’s right, we’re racing for the cure. Not the English rock band “The Cure,” but the pink-bracelet-breast-cancer “The Cure.”

As some of you may already know, the 5k is the third longest race in the world (the first longest is the marathon, the second longest is the 10k)… so needless to say this is a big deal. However, we’ve already started training so you don’t need to worry.

Now, listen up you who are going to volunteer - here are your assignments:

Bandagers – you need to properly wrap us to prevent chaffing (refer to the ‘Fun Run’ episode of The Office).

Water-bottle-hander-outers – there are 10 of you, that’s 2 per k in the 5k… so do the math and figure out where you need to be to get us the water we will need. Also, you can fill some of the water bottles with coca-cola classic and we won’t get mad at you.

Personal Trainers – your job is to make sure we properly stretch our major muscle groups before the race… with that in mind, we’ll need you to show up a few hours early.

Massagers – self explanatory. We’re going to need massages after the race, so bring your portable massage tables and oils to the finish line.

Gatorade Dumpers – we need you to dump a big thing of Gatorade on us when we cross the finish line.

Photographer – we want pictures of everything, so whoever ends up volunteering for this better be experienced.

Finally, we have a race website… http://www.active.com/donate/komenslc2008/kslcJGOUGH so if you don’t volunteer to help us you are required to donate cold hard cash to the cure (via the website). Have a great week everyone, we’ll keep you posted as we continue our training and prepare for the race.

BAM! right in the face

Just when you all though we would never write in this blog again – SHAZAAAMMMM!!!! We knock you right in the face with another awesome entry. Now, let’s get down to business – first of all we would like to thank all of you for your heart-felt requests for us to update our blog. Since our last entry we’ve had 6,784,902 requests for a blog update (2 of those requests came from our dear friend Atom). For those of you who don’t know Atom you are missing out – Atom is president of the “Cool People Who Have Cool Cousins Club” (aka CPWHCCC).* Not only is he freaking awesome but he also won a sweet flat panel TV from a sweepstakes. Anyone who wins a sweepstakes automatically gets spotlighted on our blog.**

Ok now for our second item of business – a lot of you still owe us money. Several weeks ago we started charging people to read our blog and we only got payment from about half of you (you non-payers know who you are, so stop being wimps and pay up – everyone else is paying their fair share and so should you).

And now we will gracefully whop each and every one of you upside the head with this week’s mandatory blog-tivity:

Which one of these people did Katie have a crush on when she was in 2nd grade?

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. Richard Dean Anderson
3. Dave Coulier
4. Jaleel White

We have a prize for anyone who gets the answer right (this is a medium-good prize).

For those of you who have been half-heartedly reading this entry and not really paying attention (in the same manner you read your scriptures when it’s late at night) now is the time to start paying attention. SUMMER IS STARTING AND WE ARE HAVING A SUMMERTIME-KICKOFF-ROCK-CONCERT-BBQ-SNOWCONE-OTTERPOP-SLIPNSLIDE PARTY TO KICK IT OFF. We will have a fire pit, marshmallow roasting, rotisserie pork, rock-n-roll music, and other cool stuff at the party. Everyone who is not a total dork will be there – so you better get ready. And you better pay attention because we might have it at your house.

Finally, we would like to comment on your comments. In our last blog entry, we thanked you for the comments you were about to leave (see the second-to-last sentence) – well, my peeps, 11 is not going to cut it. We demand more. So, with that in mind we are offering a special prize for everyone who leaves a comment if we get more than 20 comments. And the prizes are good – they’re not stupid waffle irons and other wedding junk like we’ve given out to past prize-winners. These prizes are dang awesome so you better get to commenting.***


* This club is fake – it doesn’t even exist. If it ever becomes a real club and you want to be a part of it then you have to ask Atom because he automatically gets to be President of it if he wants.

**You may or may not actually get spotlighted. If you win the Ed McMahon Publisher’s Clearinghouse sweepstakes you have a better chance of being spotlighted than if you win something dumb.

*** You’re probably only going to get one prize at a time, so don’t waste a bunch of time trying to win every single thing on our blog – you should focus on one prize and try your hardest until you win it. Then if you have time to try for another prize you can go ahead and try to get more than one prize.

Pesos and Vacations

For those of you who left comments on our last post and are still waiting for your five bucks, we have news for you. First of all, the processing time for your payment is 6 to 8 weeks - second, after returning from Mexico we have decided to pay each of you five pesos instead of five dollars. Because we realize most of you probably don't know what the heck you can do with five pesos, you can choose one of the options below:

1. You can team up with two other people (who also left comments and earned five pesos each) and you can split a double cheeseburger from McDonalds between the three of you.
2. If you don't like sharing, you can purchase approximately 8 Swedish Fish (and eat them up all by yourself).

Ok, here is this week's blog-tivity.

While we were on our cruise, we purchased a Breitling 'Bently Motors Special Edition' watch chuck full of bling that retails for approximately $6,500. Whoever leaves a comment and guesses the actual amount we spent on the watch (in pesos) will get a special prize.

If you didn't like that blog-tivity, you can choose to participate in this one:

When we went to Sea World, we purchased the following items:
1. a cab ride from the ship dock to Sea World (approximately 6 miles).
2. a Shamu souvenir cup full of watered down lemonade.
3. one bag of pink and blue cotton candy.
4. a small bottle of sunscreen.
5. a turkey sandwich, a mountain dew, and a gross pretzel from the Anheuser-Busch company for lunch.
6. one more cab ride back to the ship dock.

Whoever can guess the total cost of all of these items (in pesos) will win a prize.

We were going to bring you all back souvenirs from our cruise but we didn't.

It was a great trip-seven days of carefree (not cost-free) living. We flew to LA, boarded a ship, ate, walked, ate, slept, ate, spent money, ate, saw some animals, ate, went on a glass bottom boat tour, ate, got off the ship, drove, shopped, slept, and ate a little bit more. As you can tell, we are both in much need of a diet. Or two.

Now it's back to the grind-we've got to hurry to plan our next trip so we'll end this now. Thank you in advance for the wonderful comments you are about to leave.

See you later, Amigos!

5 Bucks if You Leave a Comment

First of all, thanks to everyone for paying up after reading our last post - we raked in a total of 220 smackers. Unfortunately only 3 people made comments - BORING. For the three of you who left comments we have prizes for you - and they're dang good - so come over and pick them up at your leisure.

Ok - now we are required by Katie to write about something cool that has happened in our life. So here it is - we went to the car show this week and we purchased "the world's most absorbent chamois." These babies are sweet - they can hold up to 3 gallons of liquid and they are guaranteed for life.*

Since our last post we also purchased an additional dance pad for Dance Dance Revolution and we have dance-offs (more commonly known as "Dance Offs Pants Offs") every Wednesday night at our house.**

Now for the good stuff - we've decided to start paying people to leave comments on our blog. So, with that in mind we are going to pay everyone who leaves a comment on this post $5. No catches, no gimmicks, no kidding - we'll pay you $5 if you leave a comment.***

Finally, if you leave a comment that is really cool we will bring you back a souvenir from our cruise that we're going on in a few weeks.****

So there you have it - comment about whatever you'd like - but make it good. God speed.

* Does not actually hold 3 gallons of anything and is not guaranteed for life.
** Actual dates and times for Dance Offs Pants Offs may change without notice.
*** Your comment has to be good or it doesn't count.
**** We reserve the right to not bring you back anything at all if we don't feel like it.

blogging for extra cash

Thanks to both of our families for the great Christmas this year. We had an awesome time having sleepovers, taking family pictures, eating, going to concerts, and just spending time together. It was a lot of fun and we are already excited for next year! We got an very nice freezer (which we've since filled with frozen goods from Costco), an amazing Blendtec (which really does blend anything - in fact, we even blended our old blender), and a dang cool firepit for our out of doors BBQs.

We also just celebrated our second anniversary-time flies when you're having fun like we are!

Now, down to business - basically we didn't make any money off our blog last year so we're going to start charging people to read this. If you've read this much you owe us five bucks. If you continue to read this and get to the end you will owe us even more dough. So you decide what you want to do - but you better be ready to fork it over.

Here's a list of what we gave each other for Christmas:

1. A 10 night Asian cruise (Kate gave to Justin)
2. A new 2008 Range Rover (Justin gave to Kate)
3. 40 acres of land near Brian Head for our new cabin (Justin gave to Kate)
4. A new parking slip in Nassau for our boat (Kate gave to Justin)
5. New wakeboards (we gave to each other)
6. New skis (we gave to each other)
7. New snowboards (we gave to each other)
8. New drums (Kate gave to Justin)
9. A new piano (Justin gave to Kate)
10. New slippers (Justin gave to Kate)

If you read that list you owe us fifteen bucks.

Now, we're going to spotlight someone in our blog. This is a new year's revolution for us and we are going to spotlight someone new in each blog entry. If we spotlight you, you owe us fifty bucks.

This week's spotlight is: Mom and Dad (Crockett and Gough). Pay up.

Finally, we will be having a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) praty (that's right - praty, not party) at our house. Everyone is invited - except for some of you - and you know who you are. If you come to the DDR praty you better be prepared to dance against Kate in the final round because she is dang good. She can dance on expert on every single song and get A's. And if you read that you owe us ten more bucks.

For those of you who are still reading, you each owe us a total of thirty dollars -- unless you are Mom and Dad - then you owe us eighty bucks (each). That new Range Rover didn't pay for itself, so cough it up.